Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Paul H. Kratoska

   Pages 1-8

3. The Impact of the Second World War on Commercial Rice Production in Mainland South-East Asia

   • Paul H. Kratoska

   Pages 9-31

4. Transportation and Rice Distribution in South-East Asia during the Second World War

   • Aiko Kurasawa

   Pages 32-66

5. Food Production and Food Distribution Programmes in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation

   • Ricardo Trota Jose

   Pages 67-100

6. Malayan Food Shortages and the Kedah Rice Industry during the Japanese Occupation

   • Paul H. Kratoska

   Pages 101-134

7. Agriculture and Food Supplies in Sarawak during the Japanese Occupation

   • R. A. Cramb

   Pages 135-166

8. Oppression and Romanticism: The Food Supply of Java during the Japanese Occupation

   • Shigeru Sato

   Pages 167-186

9. Regulation and Control: Explaining the Decline of Food Production in Java, 1940–6

   • Pierre van der Eng

   Pages 187-207

10. Japanese Food Policiesand the 1945 Great Famine in Indochina

    • Nguyên Thê Anh

    Pages 208-226

11. A Survey of Village Conditions during the 1945 Famine in Vietnam

    • Motoo Furuta

    Pages 227-237

12. Back Matter

    Pages 239-244

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The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945 brought with it severe food shortages, largely arising from organizational failures and inadequate transportation. the nine essays in this volume examine the situation in food exporting countries such as Burma, Thailand and Vietnam, in food deficit areas such as Malaya, the Philippines and Java, and in Sarawak which was largely self-sufficient. Two essays examine in detail the famine that struck the Tonkin area of northern Vietnam in 1945.

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  Paul H. Kratoska

R. A. CRAMB member of the Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland MOTOO FURUTA Professor, Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo RICARDO TROTA JOSE Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Philippines PAUL H. KRATOSKA Member of the History Department, National University of Singapore AIKO KURASAWA Professor of Social History, Department of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo NGUYEN THE ANH Professor of Southeast Asian History, Sorbonne, Paris SHIGERU SATO Lecturer in Japanese Language and History, Department of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle PIERRE VAN DER ENG Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Australian National University, Canberra

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